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mari @amari.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hello! 👋
A lot of new bots & sketchy profiles on here lately. If I don’t follow you back, pls say hi & ask. Also, if you’re skeptical if I’m a bot, or want to know a bit more about me, click below. 👇

mari @amari.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello to all the lovely ppl who have recently followed me. I’m at an odd career crossroads rn, so my posts are everywhere—but they mostly orbit around Qs on how to actually make a better world for the kids. All the kids.

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Pacific Affairs @pacificaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Shiro Armstrong and Liam Gammon's Perspectives piece, "Why 'Temu Trumpism' Failed in Australia: Labour’s Landslide Victory and the Pro-Globalization Consensus," will be available to read in our December issue of Pacific Affairs. Read the abstract early here: tinyurl.com/8u4r483h

Why “Temu Trumpism” Failed in Australia: Labour’s Landslide Victory and the Pro-Globalization Consensus

Why Australia did not become a populist led country like the USA

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 1h

replaying this like a mantra to grow the egregore of lady justice

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 13h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 1h

I’ll have to look up the book.

mari @amari.bsky.social · 1h

Froggie to the right of them!
Froggie to the left of them!
Froggie in front of them!

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

mari @amari.bsky.social · 2h

the comments tho

ceej @ceej.online · 6h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Mood.

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 8h

BYD just hit its 14 millionth NEV and overtook Tesla (total 7 million) in global #BEV sales for the first time — 1.6 M vs 1.2 M YTD 2025, a 400 K lead. The world’s top #EV maker isn’t in California anymore — it’s in Shenzhen, driving the new electric era. Geely rising fast also. #EnergyTransition

BYD's 14 millionth NEV rolls off line at Brazil plant, delivered to President Lula

The rollout of BYD's 14 millionth NEV comes about 11 months after its 10 millionth vehicle.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 2h

safe and weird. words to live by

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility.

Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply.

They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

Three people in frog costumes stand outside the Portland ice facility at night. They’re holding a sign that says frog brigade

mari @amari.bsky.social · 2h

What a haunting reminder, as the moonlight enters my window rn, of a poem I hadn’t thought about in years by de la Mare, that my grandmother recited to me when I was a child, & I committed it to memory... Silver.

Silver by
Walter de la Mare

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

This poem is in the public domain.

source: https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=4264

#poetry #memory

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 2h

I hope there are ppl doing this critical discourse work in Canada (& elsewhere) too

@wcelaw.bsky.social @wwfcanada.org @patrickcanning.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social @avilewis.ca @ndp.ca @katharinehayhoe.com 🌎 #lawfare #climatecrisis

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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 2h

#ffagenda Australia- petro-state far-RW

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 10d

Carly Lubicz-Zaorski uses Gina Rinehart as an example of why we need greater disclosure laws on who funds Anti Climate groups such as Advance & the IPA, after we only found out Rinehart funds the IPA bcoz it was revealed in court
Michelle Ananda-Rajah “2.3 million?”😳(in 1 year) #Estimates

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 5h

#cdnpoli #resist #uspoli @aoc.bsky.social

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 7h

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario declares measles outbreak over after nearly a year of spread | CBC News

A weekly Public Health Ontario epidemiology report says the measles outbreak that began in the province almost a year ago is over.

www.cbc.ca

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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 7h

www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out

Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.

www.sfchronicle.com

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 6h

nice to see the more than human world fighting the good fight

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

mari @amari.bsky.social · 6h

This is such a key concept for people to wrap their minds around. No matter how much we ‘grow the economy’ it will NEVER address human needs bc these ends are not profitable enough to capital. We need functional democratic governance for that.

cc @avilewis.ca @ndp.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 2d

Part 2

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 6h

Such an important distinction to make that capitalism is *not* markets, businesses & trade—which have existed for thousands of yrs.

It is the highly undemocratic control of production by large firms & the 1%, not to meet human needs or make progress, but for them to maximize their own profit.

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 2d

My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives.

(Part 2 below)

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 2d

To those who say that capitalism is democratic because consumers "vote with their dollars", this is not true and I explain why here: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-capita...

Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic

The antidote is economic democracy.

jasonhickel.substack.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8h

Active Materials is the newsletter of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University
Our first edition is out! Sign up here
mailchi.mp/6c06fd17cc4b...

Active Materials by NZIPL at JHU

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 8h

Odd how this piece didn’t mention that Thiel has already outright named Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 9h

“ Do you think Trump is the Antichrist?" Thiel mused at one point. "I will give you a hearing. And we should consider that." www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

mari @amari.bsky.social · 9h

jfc

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

mari @amari.bsky.social · 9h

Portland chicken about Project 2025 (which he read):

“The place this is going to go is such a departure from the world I thought I would have as a kid and I would much rather do anything that I can to prevent that world from happening rather than just sit around selfishly and do nothing.”

🥹🐔

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

this kid’s a good egg

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 10h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

I know it's sort of a cold take but your perspective on US foreign policy dramatically improves once you consistently read or watch non US media

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 10h

ummm

a little girl is sitting in a car seat and making a face .

Alt: a little girl is sitting in a car seat and making a face . gif

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